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I promise I’m not going to keep making supercuts, over and over, but iMovie really does make it pretty easy. Anyway, Joe Biden went to the “my friend” school of debate prep and referred to Paul Ryan as such 14 different times at the debate the other night. Here’s a supercut of all of those.

I made my very first supercut just now. While watching the debate, I was struck by how thirsty Paul Ryan seemed to be. I get thirsty sometimes, so no big deal. Here’s a supercut of all his drinking from last night’s debate in one place.

Mitt Romney did a great job pretending to be empathetic at the first Presidential debate on Wednesday night, what with the stories about voters coming up to him and telling him sad things. His empathy program sure got an update in time. Well, there’s about a month left in the election and I figured Mitt would need some help conjuring up some more empathetic stories of voters for the debate. If necessary, he can come here and get a couple to use for later.

Harold Ickes was profiled recently in Mother Jones. He’s a veteran political operative on the Democratic side who is charged with leading team D’s Super PAC. The Republicans are on track to raise and spend more so he’s got his work cut out for him. My take is that campaign finance reform is probably the biggest issue in politics at the moment, and that a lot of the other issues stem from that problem. This piece gives a pretty good background on outside money in politics, and I suppose if the Democrats are going to have to play the money game (which admittedly they seem to have created), Ickes might as well be a part of it.

In 1963, he went south to join the civil rights movement. One day, while registering voters in Tallulah, Louisiana, a gang of shotgun-toting segregationists attacked him. The beating cost him a kidney.

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is not pleased about reports of Paul Ryan calling RATM his favorite band. Read his response here.

Don’t mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta “rage” in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he’s not raging against is the privileged elite he’s groveling in front of for campaign contributions.

Republicans in the Senate are refusing to extend a payroll tax holiday that would be paid for with a small surcharge on incomes over $1 million. Their excuse is that it will hurt job creators. NPR asked to speak to some of these job creators who would stop hiring if their marginal income tax rate was raised.